s also targeted at blacks. Her family members are disinterested in fighting for civil rights and this frustrates her. The fear which causes oppression from racists is equaled in the oppressed by their fear of the oppressors. This is obvious from Moody’s mother’s concern for her welfare and refusal to allow her to come home if she did not stop her NAACP activities, “She ended her letter by saying that she had burned the leaflet I sent her. ‘Please don’t send any more of that stuff here. I don’t want nothing to happen to us here,’ she said. ‘If you keep that up, you will never be able to come home again’” (Moody 261).
The above not only shows that fear works both ways in racism dynamic, but also the sacrifices which must be made by those with the courage and conviction to persevere through oppressive conditions, oppression sanctioned by political, economic, judicial and legislative means. Campbell, like Moody, was raised in Mississippi. In his story of his brother who he was extremely close to and extremely far removed from, depending on the topic and experience, we see the same kind of difference between the two brothers as we saw in the above example between Moody and her mother. Both the you
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